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▪ I. faille|faɪj, feɪl|
Also 6 faile or fayle.
[a. F. faille in same senses.]
†1. A kind of head-dress. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 218/2 Fayle, an upparmost garment of a woman. 1694Earl of Perth Lett. (Camden) 30 A faille..is a great scarf of tafita for the best, and of worsted for others.
2. A light kind of ribbed silk fabric.
faille française has a larger rib than faille proper, being thus intermediate between this and ‘ottoman’. More recently the term wool faille has been applied to a kind of ‘terry’.
1869Le Follet, Feb., Faille is very fashionable for long dress. 1878–9A. Barlow Weaving 396 The most important of these manufactures comprise..‘Failles’, black. 1887Yng. Ladies Jrnl. XXX. 122 The bonnet is of cream faille. 1888Bow Bells Weekly 13 Jan., The train is in full folds of yellow tulle over yellow faille. 1889Daily News 24 July 5/5 The finest and softest corded silk, of the sort known technically as faille française.
▪ II. faille(n, failly, faillie
obs. ff. of fail. |